Awards

HealthTexas Wins Prestigious AMGA Award in 2012

HealthTexas Provider Network has been named a 2012 American Medical Group Association (AMGA) Acclaim Award Honoree. The award, granted through AMGA’s philanthropic arm, the American MedicalGroup Foundation, was presented in September at AMGA’s Institute for Quality Leadership Annual Conference in Las Vegas. AMGA’s prestigious Acclaim Award honors organizations that embrace the Institute of Medicine’s aims by incorporating the six attributes of an ideal health care delivery system as identified by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a high-performance health system. The Acclaim Award highlights the continued research and investigation toward finding the finest models of medical management, coordination of care delivery and a systemic approach to improving the patient experience. “These organizations demonstrated a monumental leap forward in providing patients the health care they need, want and deserve,” said Donald W. Fisher, PhD, AMGA’s president and chief executive officer and AMGF secretary/treasurer. “We salute the dedication of the organizations’ leadership and health care providers in improving patient outcomes, efficiency, coordination, and organizational and clinical integration. Their ongoing efforts will ensure that their patients will receive quality, value-based care throughout their lives.” HealthTexas’ “Transforming Health Care Delivery Through Patient-Centered Care” initiative centers on a strategy of clinical transformation – a commitment to continually improve the quality of patient care through the redesign of clinical processes. This strategy focuses on reducing unintended variation, cost, waste and error, enabling HealthTexas to make remarkable progress in developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives.

HealthTexas Wins AMGA Quality Award 2011

HealthTexas Provider Network has been named a 2011 American Medical Group Association (AMGA)Acclaim Award Honoree. The award, granted through AMGA’s philanthropic arm, the American MedicalGroup Foundation, was presented in September at AMGA’s Institute for Quality Leadership Annual Conference in Las Vegas. AMGA’s prestigious Acclaim Award honors organizations that embrace the Institute of Medicine’s aims by incorporating the six attributes of an ideal health care delivery system as identified by the Commonwealth Fund Commission on a high-performance health system. The Acclaim Award highlights the continued research and investigation toward finding the finest models of medical management, coordination of care delivery and a systemic approach to improving the patient experience. “These organizations demonstrated a monumental leap forward in providing patients the health care they need, want and deserve,” said Donald W. Fisher, PhD, AMGA’s president and chief executive officer and AMGF secretary/treasurer. “We salute the dedication of the organizations’ leadership and health care providers in improving patient outcomes, efficiency, coordination, and organizational and clinical integration. Their ongoing efforts will ensure that their patients will receive quality, value-based care throughout their lives.” HealthTexas’ “Transforming Health Care Delivery Through Patient-Centered Care” initiative centers on a strategy of clinical transformation – a commitment to continually improve the quality of patient care through the redesign of clinical processes. This strategy focuses on reducing unintended variation, cost, waste and error, enabling HealthTexas to make remarkable progress in developing and implementing quality improvement initiatives.

HealthTexas Receives Prestigious National Honor 2010

American Medical Group Association (AMGA) presents: The Preeminence Award to HealthTexas, Recognizing Excellence in Leadership and Patient Care

HealthTexas was honored, March 20th at the AMGA 2010 Annual Conference in New Orleans, as this year’s recipient of the Medical Group Preeminence Award by the Executive Committee of the American Medical Group Association (AMGA). This significant achievement positions HealthTexas among elite medical groups across the nation that include Albert Lea Medical Center–Mayo Health System, Aurora Medical Group, Cleveland Clinic, Colorado Permanente Medical Group, Riverside Health System, and Geisinger Health System.

AMGA presents this award annually to member groups’ physician-administrator leadership teams for exceptional leadership; innovation and vision; contributions to the advancement of quality; effective health care delivery practices and structure; and outstanding contributions to the local public community in which the medical group is located.

HealthTexas won this award for demonstrating improved care for extensive populations and across a very large organization; proving that our effort to collaborate effectively and work diligently in improving upon the model of delivering health care to our patients does make a difference. HealthTexas is proud of our leaders, physicians, and administrators who consistently rise to the occasion and continue to implement innovative programs and initiatives that will better the lives of our patients and the community. We have had a noticeable impact on the patients and communities we serve as evidenced by our measured success in our Adult Preventative Healthcare Services, Disease Management program, Office of Community Health Improvement programs, Liver Outreach initiatives, and overall Patient Satisfaction results.

“This award recognizes an organization’s contributions to the community but also to the medical group model, itself,” said Donald W. Fisher, Ph.D., CAE, AMGA’s President, and Chief Executive Officer. “HealthTexas Provider Network stands as an exemplar of the model, and their work is revolutionizing how care is delivered to their community. They prove what professionals dedicated to advancing quality, coordinated care, working together in an integrated setting, can achieve to better serve their patients, their organizations, and their communities.”

To be a recipient of the 2010 AMGA Preeminence Award is a major accomplishment for our organization. Thank you to all HealthTexas employees and physicians, at all levels of the organization, for the contributions you make every day to deliver quality care and create better outcomes for our patients and the community we are so honored to serve.

HealthTexas Selected as Top Leadership Team in Healthcare by HealthLeaders Media 2008

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Tying together a large medical group in multiple locations under a common goal and commitment to patient-centered care requires dedicated senior leadership. That dedication has earned the leadership team at HealthTexas Provider Network the honor as the 2008 Top Leadership Team in Healthcare for medical group practices by HealthLeaders Media.

The HealthLeaders Media Top Leadership Teams in Healthcare 2008 program, sponsored by Cejka Search, CIT, HealthGrades and Pershing Yoakley & Associates, is designed to celebrate the outstanding teamwork that occurs in healthcare organizations each day, to share what makes top leadership teams successful, and to encourage other healthcare leaders to learn more from the best practices of top leadership teams. Winners are judged on the leadership team’s overall leadership culture, their ability to overcome challenges, and their ability to demonstrate successes that result from outstanding leadership teamwork. Only one winner per category receives this national honor each year.